Probably a consistent theme for a lot of people with all the downsizing of collections evidenced in the bst threads. I'm up about two grand overall. Here's what I can recall buying to this point in the year though...

I'm not going to get detailed and itemize everything, but I think I've dropped around $2K since July. Don't think I've ever spent so much on toys in such a short span of time. Going back to ignoring this thread though so I don't get sad about the sprained bank account.

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I should probably stay away from this thread too, because I shudder to think what my annual budget is. Thousands I would estimate.

I don't really have a budget per se, I just try to buy everything as soon as I see it on the shelves. Around here if you blink it could be gone and never seen again. Sometimes it can be a real pain to juggle the $$$, but I can usually find a way to make it work. Just this past week I had to dump most of my TVC Wave 1 figures just so I could scrape up the cash to buy the new TCW Slave 1.

I really wanted to get all the new vintage stuff, even the vehicles, but the cost, and moreso the space considerations, dictate otherwise.

On the plus side, my REAL vintage collection is nearly complete, so I won't have to siphon money off for that much longer.

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Few days late but I finally calculated my purchases from December... $1307.41 for 2010, $1600 less than last year! I think what helped me is that I cut back on DVDs, mainly the big TV show sets. Also the smaller amount of Star Wars toys out there helped (so did the summer clearances!)

I SHATTERED my $1500 goal for the year. Instead of spending money I ended up going nearly $2000 under budget and making $489 back on the year. That's the first time I've ever done that since I started collecting back in '96 and '97. I don't know that I can repeat it, but I'm sure glad to have done that well. I probably would have been a bit harder if OT Vintage stuff wasn't hard to come by around me earlier in the year. I was tight on budget the last few months of 2010 so I did end up passing on a few items I really would have liked to have picked up, like the Target Hoth Battlepacks. But in the end I wound up picking up most everything I really wanted this year.